Living High-Tech, Still Devoted to Torah

Updated Aug. 24, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

A comment in a recent Marketplace article ("Ruling Guides Orthodox Sites' Sabbath Sales," Aug. 17) that "the wave of new technology (was) never anticipated by the strictures of Judaism" strikes this Orthodox Jew as odd. Jewish law -- Halachah -- to anyone who has studied and observed it, is structured to anticipate any and all cultural evolutions and technological revolutions.

As Rabbi Moshe Heinemann deftly demonstrates, on both sides of his ruling, the Torah speaks to all people at all times. It is...